Acc.13236
March 2012
Inventory
Acc.13236
John Murray Archive
(additional papers)
National Library of Scotland
Manuscripts Division
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh
EH1 1EW
Tel: 0131-466 2812
Fax: 0131-466 2811
E-mail: manuscripts@nls.uk
© Trustees of the National Library of Scotland
Collection presented by John R. Murray, April 2011.
Summary: Further papers of John Murray publishing house.
For the principal collection see Mss.40000+
The collection is arranged into the following series:
1-44 Author papers
45-66 Quarterly Review papers
67-169 Business ledgers and papers
170-411 Murray family papers
412-422 Research files
Author papers
1-44. Author papers, including manuscripts and typescripts, proofs,
correspondence and other papers for John Murray authors including;
Charles Synge Christopher Bowen, Lord Byron, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Sir Austen Henry Layard, Sir Philip Magnus, Axel Munthe, Samuel
Smiles, Paul Henri Sproge (a.k.a. Fred Rebell) and Ibn al-Wardi, various
dates (see also: research papers Acc.13236/444-450)
Bowen, Charles Synge Christopher (1835-1894)
1. Proof pages of Charles Synge Christopher Bowen ‘Lord Bowen’s
Judgements’, unpublished and likely preparatory materials for Murray
publication of Sir Henry Stewart Cunningham’s Lord Bowen, a
biographical sketch, with a selection from his verses (1897), not dated
Byron, George Gordon (1788-1824) 6th Baron Byron, poet
2-21. Lord Byron, research papers, off prints etc regarding anniversaries,
exhibitions, publications etc, by various authors, including Doris Langley
Moore and Fiona MacCarthy, 20th century
[awaiting final arrangement and description see David McClay for access]
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930) Knight author physician criminologist
22. Bound typescript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle of ‘A selection of Short
Stories’ containing; The Silver Hatchet, A Night among the Nihilists, The
Fool of Harvey’s Sluice, The Gully of Bluemansdyke, My Friend the
Murder, The Ghosts of Gorethorpe Grange, The Memoir of Sherlock
Holmes – The Field Bazaar, That Veteran, Touch and Go: A
Midshipman’s Story, Our Derby Sweepstakes, That Little Square Box,
The Last Resource and The Death Voyage, not dated, and manuscript
note by unknown, 25 Mar 1959
23. Typescript, ‘Alphabetical index to all the Sherlock Holmes Stories’ to
Murray’s Omnibus edition, not dated (20th C.)
24. Collection of journals, newspaper clippings and magazines related to Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes; Sherlock Holmes Journal (winter
1965, ‘Tour of Switzerland in the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes, pictorial
supplement’ 1968, summer and winter 1871, summer and winter 1972),
World of Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine (Dec 1977)Observer
magazine, with article by Len Deighton, Graham Greene and High
Greene ‘Sherlock Holmes Investigated’, 6 Jan 1974, Observer magazine,
with article by John Fowles ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Hound of Death’
and Hamish MacInnes ‘Journey to the Lost World’, 13 Jan 1974, with
photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings and miscellaneous, 1966 to
2000, and not dated
25. Typescript, ‘Conan Doyle Biographical Archives’, index and inventory
listing, 1958
Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894) Knight Politician Diplomat
Archaeologist
26. Bound scrapbook of engravings and proof engravings from Sir Austen
Henry Layard Nineveh and its Remains (1848–1849), not dated
27. Unbound collection of engravings, prints and sketches, and annotated title
page, from Sir Austen Henry Layard Nineveh and its Remains (1848–9),
not dated
28. Paper cast of cuneiform script Sir Austen Henry Layard, not dated
29. Manuscript, bound volume, of Sir Austen Henry Layard excavating
expenses, not dated
Magnus, Sir Philip (1842–1933) 1st Baronet Educationist and MP
30. Typescript with manuscript annotation of Sir Philip Magnus of King
Edward the Seventh (1964), with letters to Sir John Murray VI, 1963-4
31. Papers relating to copyright of article of Sir Philip Magnus of ‘The
character of King Edward VII’ from the Quarterly Review, 1910
Munthe, Martin Axel Frederik (1857-1949) Swedish physician and writer
32. Annotated and corrected proof pages of Axel Munthe of The Story of San
Michelle, 1929, with annotated and corrected proof pages of ‘Preface to
the 12th Impression’, 1930
33. Correspondence, off-prints, booklets and papers, regarding Axel Munthe
and income Tax, royalties, international rights and Begt Jangfeldt’s Axel
Munthe. The road to San Michelle (1999), 1931-2007
34. Correspondence, off-prints, correspondence, booklets etc, regarding Axel
Munthe, The Story of San Michelle, including Jerry Laurie’s unpublished A
Faithful Likeness (1994)
Smiles, Samuel (1812-1904) biographer
35-38. Bound manuscript of Samuel Smiles, ‘Memoir of John Murray’ published
as A Publisher and his Friends (1891), includes additional annotations
and editorial revisions by unknown hands [possibly including John Murray
III, Sir John Murray IV and Thomas Mackay], 4 volumes, not dated
39. Manuscripts of Sir John Murray IV of chronological plan for Samuel
Smiles Publisher and his Friends (1891) for period 1803-1841, with
chronological plan for the Quarterly Review for period 1807-1815, not
dated, pre-1891
Paul Henri Sproge (a.k.a. Fred Rebell) (1886–1968) sailor and author
40. Bound typescript of Paul Henri Sproge (1886-1968) of ‘In Search of
Happiness an illustrated autobiography and travel adventure’, Published
as Escape to the sea: the adventures of Fred Rebell who sailed single-
handed in an open boat 9,000 miles across the Pacific in search of
happiness (1939), iv (title page, contents, illustrations list) and 257 pages,
c.1939
41. Unbound typescript of Paul Henri Sproge [Fred Rebell] of Escape to the
sea, 233 pages, c.1939
42. Two steel woodblocks; passport illustrations for Paul Henri Sproge [Fred
Rebell] Escape to the sea, c.1939
43. Log book of yacht ‘Elaine’ by Paul Henri Sproge, 1931-2
Ibn al-Wardi (d.1348) author
44. Bound manuscript copy of Ibn al-Wardi’s (d.1348) Kharidat al-Aja'ib wa
Faridat al-Ghara'ib (Cosmography or The Pearl of Wonders and the
Uniqueness of Things Strange), in English, in unknown hand, not dated
45-66. Quarterly Review
Quarterly Review papers including notes and plans, subscription,
photographs, manuscripts and proofs of articles, legal papers,
contributors and general papers.
45. Quarterly Review subscription
46-47. Quarterly Review portraits
48. Quarterly Review manuscripts and proofs of articles
49. Quarterly Review letters and copy letters
50-52. Quarterly Review legal papers
53-60. Quarterly Review contributors
61-66. Quarterly Review general papers
Quarterly Review subscription
45. Subscribers book of John Murray, listing some of the subscribers and free
copies distributed of the Quarterly Review, Edinburgh Review, Edinburgh
Medical Journal, Farmers Magazine, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Rees’s
Cyclopaedia, Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, Harleian Miscellany, Somers’s
Tracts, Asiatic Annual Register, Chalmers Caledonia, Kerr’s Voyages &
Travels, Edinburgh Annual Register and other miscellaneous magazines,
1810-12
Quarterly Review portraits
46-47. Photograph portraits (17) and printed engraved portraits (20) of Quarterly
Review contributors, not dated
46. Photograph portraits of 17 Quarterly Review contributors:
Archer, William (1856-1924) dramatist and drama critic
Bailey, John Cann (1864-1931) critic and essayist
Baring, Evelyn (1841-1917) 1st Earl of Cromer and statesman
Frazer, Sir James George (1854-1941) knight and social anthropologist
Hutchinson, Horatio [Horace] Gordon (1859–1932) sportsman and writer
Hyndman, Henry Mayers (1842-1921) socialist leader
Inge, William Ralph (1860-1954) Dean of St Paul's
Lawrence, Charles Edward (1870-1940) author and editor
MacPherson, William (1812-1893) legal writer
Maurice, Sir Frederick Barton (1871-1951) knight and general
Murray, Sir John (1851-1928) knight, publisher and editor
Murray, Sir John (1884-1967) knight and publisher
Norwood, Sir Cyril (1875-1956) knight and educationist
Oman, Sir Charles William Chadwick (1860-1946) knight, historian and
MP
Prothero, Rowland Edmund (1851-1937) 1st Baron Ernle
Saintsbury, George Edward Bateman (1845-1933) literary critic and
historian
Shadwell, Arthur (1854-1936) author and lecturer
47. Engraved portraits of 20 Quarterly Review contributors:
Apperley, Charles James [pseud. Nimrod] (1778–1843) writer
Barrow, Sir John (1764-1848) 1st Baronet, Secretary of the Admiralty,
travel writer
Canning, George (1770-1827) statesman
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne- (1830-1903) 3rd Marquess of
Salisbury and statesman
Coleridge, Sir John Taylor (1790-1876) knight and judge (two copies)
Croker, John Wilson (1780-1857) politician and essayist
Elwin, Whitwell (1816-1900) Anglican clergyman and editor of the
Quarterly Review
Gifford, William (1756-1826) editor of the Quarterly Review
Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898) statesman
Irving, Washington (1783-1859) American author
Layard, Sir Austen Henry (1817-1894) knight, politician, diplomat and
archaeologist
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